Lesbian Women Choosing Motherhood: The Journey to Conception

Title
Lesbian Women Choosing Motherhood: The Journey to Conception
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Hayman, Brenda
Wilkes, Lesley
Halcomb, Elizabeth
Jackson, Debra
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1080/1550428x.2014.921801
UNE publication id
une:19077
Abstract
Increasingly, lesbian women are choosing to have children in the context of a same-sex relationship, and their journey to conception and on to motherhood involves a range of decisions that are unique to lesbian couples. While creating a de novo family is burdened with decisions, choosing to be parents was a deliberate and conscious decision made by lesbian women participating in our study. The findings presented in this article focus on choosing which partner would be pregnant, donor decisions, as well as methods of conception used by lesbian women participating in a qualitative study that examined the experiences of lesbian mothers in Australia. This article is not intended to be interpretive, but rather a description of the processes engaged by participants.
Link
Citation
Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 11(4), p. 395-409
ISSN
1550-4298
1550-428X
Start page
395
End page
409

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